Review prime subcontract risk before you bid, sign, or commit.
SubShield helps contractors review government subcontract, teaming, and prime-provided bid packages before attorney review — flagging payment traps, missing documents, vague scopes, flowdown risks, and negotiation questions to send back to the prime.
Prime Package Risk Review
Pre-Commitment Scan
Upload your subcontract, teaming agreement, SOW, flowdowns, exhibits, or bid package. SubShield flags common risk areas before you commit or send the package to counsel.
Catch subcontract risk while you still have leverage.
Once the prime submits the bid or receives the award, subcontract terms can become harder to renegotiate. SubShield helps contractors identify missing information, unclear obligations, and risk-heavy terms before they commit pricing, labor, equipment, bonding, insurance, or performance capacity.
Where are you in the prime-sub process?
Before bid, award, or signature
Use SubShield before you commit to a prime's subcontract terms, teaming terms, scope, flowdowns, pricing assumptions, or compliance obligations.
- Draft subcontract packages
- Teaming agreements & LOIs
- Prime-provided SOWs
- Flowdown attachments
- Bid packages with future terms
- Missing exhibits or documents
Already received or signed a subcontract?
If you already moved forward without a structured review, SubShield can still help identify risk areas, missing documents, unclear obligations, and questions to raise with the prime or legal counsel.
How SubShield Works
Upload the prime-provided package
Upload the draft subcontract, teaming agreement, SOW, flowdowns, exhibits, or bid documents provided by the prime contractor.
SubShield runs an initial risk review
The system flags common risk areas including payment timing, vague work scope, missing documents, flowdown exposure, and change-order risk.
Send focused questions back to the prime
Use the report to request missing documents, clarify obligations, and ask for revisions before you commit or send the package to counsel.
Send the cleaner package to your attorney
After the prime responds, SubShield recommends sending the revised package to qualified legal counsel for final review.
What SubShield Flags
SubShield reviews the package for common government subcontract risk areas that can affect payment, scope, compliance, liability, and negotiation leverage.
Payment Traps
Pay-when-paid language, delayed payment timing, retainage, setoff rights, or unclear invoice approval rules.
Missing Documents
Referenced exhibits, flowdowns, wage determinations, cybersecurity terms, SOWs, or prime contract attachments that were not provided.
Vague Scope of Work
Unclear deliverables, undefined acceptance standards, open-ended support duties, or mismatched SOW language.
Flowdown Exposure
Federal clauses, FAR/DFARS obligations, prime contract terms, or compliance duties passed down without enough context.
Liability & Indemnity
Broad indemnity, uncapped liability, insurance mismatch, or responsibility for issues outside your control.
Schedule & Change Risk
Unclear period of performance, unilateral schedule changes, informal direction, or unpaid change work.
Termination & Default
Short cure periods, broad default rights, convenience termination gaps, or weak payment protection after termination.
Compliance Cost Risk
Cybersecurity, wage, reporting, audit, bonding, insurance, or documentation duties that may not be reflected in your price.
Built to support attorney review — not replace it.
SubShield is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. It helps contractors organize the first pass by identifying common risk areas, missing documents, unclear obligations, and questions for the prime. After the prime responds with a cleaner package, SubShield recommends sending the revised documents to qualified legal counsel for final review.
- Helps organize contract issues before legal review
- Helps reduce avoidable attorney review time
- Helps focus counsel on the highest-risk terms
- Helps contractors ask better questions before committing
Built for contractors working under government primes.
SubShield is designed specifically for teams navigating the complexities of federal contracting pipelines at the subcontract level.
- Small and mid-sized government subcontractors
- IT and technology service providers
- Specialty trade contractors
- Construction contractors
- Suppliers and manufacturers
- Professional service firms
- Internal contract, operations, or business development teams
- Enterprise teams that want a consistent first-pass review process
Ready to review the package before you commit?
Upload your prime-provided subcontract, teaming, or bid package. SubShield will flag common risk areas, missing documents, and negotiation questions so you can go back to the prime before final attorney review.